Two friends were seriously injured, Stanaway told him. It was about 4:30 a.m. The crash had just happened.

“They were freaking out. They didn’t know what to do,” Harlan said Wednesday, standing on the same front porch where his friends had gathered for the party earlier that morning.

“We were screaming at Dylan, telling him to get help and call police … I didn’t want to believe it was real.”

Harlan 18, spoke of the crash Wednesday, the same day the Ottawa County Prosecutor’s Office announced he would be charged for allowing minors to consume alcohol at his apartment. A court arraignment is scheduled for June 27 in Hudsonville.

An investigation into the crash continues.

Ottawa Sheriff's Lt. Mark Bennett said detectives could not establish where those at the party got the alcohol.

Harlan says he knew the charge against him was coming. He accepts it — though he vehemently denies providing any of the alcohol. He spoke Wednesday of a night that started as a celebration of several friends’ upcoming graduation from Wyoming Park High School and ended with two dead.

“There’s nothing you can do. You can’t go back in time,” he said. “It’s a nightmare.”

Police responded to the I-196 off-ramp to Chicago Drive at about 4:30 a.m. May 20 and found a car that had been driven by 17-year-old Takunda Mavima rolled over, down an embankment.

Two passengers—Krysta Howell, 15, and Timothy See,17 —died at the scene. Three others were injured.

“He was a mess. He’s never been in trouble for anything,” Harlan says. “He beats himself up.”

Harlan thinks back to that night and still pictures the faces of See and Howell as they and several other friends were gathered at a graduation party in Wyoming. There was some drinking and, at some point, the party started to break up.

The group decided to move over to a Copper Beech Apartment Harlan had just moved into near Grand Valley State University. He arrived sometime around midnight to find several people already gathered outside. Harlan says he saw alcohol, but doesn’t know who brought it.

Security personnel from the apartment stopped by several times throughout the night and eventually threatened a call to police.

During his last conversation with a security officer, Harlan recalls nearly everyone inside scattered and left.

Stanaway’s call came not long after. Harlan struggled to reach anyone for details of what happened. He learned the next morning See and Howell were dead.

Harlan recalls a candlelight vigil held at Wyoming Park High School a day after the crash. He arrived early. “I just sat in the parking lot all by myself,” he says.

The impact set in at school the next week.

Hundreds of people were walking down the hallway, Harlan says, “and not a single person was saying a single thing.”

Harlan recalls the visitations and funerals for his friends. See’s memorial service took place days before graduation. His family told him they are not passing blame.

But the memories, they will always be there.

“The faces of the families, it just tears me apart.”

Harlan said he plans to move out of the apartment soon. He looks across the parking lot at a basketball court and recalls it as the last place he saw Howell.

Today, he wears two rubber bracelets around his wrists—one, with the name of Mavima “My best friend” and the other, with See’s name and the words “Never Forget.”